Art of copying plastic objects.



No. 793.237. PATENTED JUNE 27, 1905. E. SGHMID.

ART OF COPYING PLASTIC OBJECTS.

APPLICATION FILED D3014, 1904.

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Patented June 27, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

EUGEN SCHMID, OF FREUDENSTADT, GERMANY.

ART OF COPYING PLASTIC OB-JECTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,237, dated June 27, 1905.

Application filed December 14, 1904. Serial No. 236,906.

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Be it known that I, EUGEN SoHMIn, a citizen of the German Empire, and a resident of Freudenstadt, \Viirtemberg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Copying Plastic Objects, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an art of copying plastic objects, and particularly the human body or any parts of the same.

It consists in inclosing the body or object of which a copy or cast is intended to be taken with a wrapper of non-extensible material, such as paper or the like, and pressing this wrapper on the object or body by drawing over it a covering of an extensible ductile material which will suit itself and join closely to the forms of such body, thereby forcing the said non-extensible material to assume the shape of the body by forming wrinkles, and in order to preserve this shape I remove the extensible cover and put upon the aforesaid wrapper another cover of non-extensible material after providing it with glue and then draw again the aforesaid extensible covering over the two layers. By this way the latter are pressed and fastened together, and after again removing the said extensible wrapping the said two inner layers, pasted together as described, may be cut out and the pieces removed from the body or object in several pieces, which are now ready for use as molds.

For a better understanding of my process I referto the accompanyingdrawings, in which are shown the said coverings as used for the molding of a human torso, Figure 1 representing a jupon-mold A, of cloth or paper,

which is laid upon the body or torso as close as can be. Fig. 2 is another jupon-rnold, of extensible stuff, such as cloth lined with india-rubber, which is drawn over the said first wrapper and tightly buttoned, so that it will press the former closely upon the body and force it to assume the shape of the latter, as aforesaid. In order to preserve the form thus attained by the wrapper A, the said covering B should be removed again, whereupon another wrapper O in the form of a framing (illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings) or of a shape similar to that shown in Fig. l and provided with glue is applied again, as aforesaid.

I claim- An art or process of copying the human body or any other objects, consisting in applying upon such body or object a wrapper of non-extensible materal such as paper or the like, then drawing over the same an elastic pressing-cover thereby forcing the said nonextensible material to join closely to the shape of the body or object, then removing the said elastic cover and covering the wrapper first mentioned with a glued layer or frame of nonextensible material, again drawing over it the said pressing-cover and, finally, cutting out after again removing such pressing-cover, the cover pasted together and removing the pieces from the body or object, substantially as aforesaid.

Signedthis23ddayofNovember, A. D. 1904:.

EUGEN SCHMID.

\Vitnesses:

ERNST ENTERNNAMY, HERMANN VoLK. 

